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Lea Ypi in conversation with Marianne Ponsford

Freedom, inequality, indignity

Cartagena 2026, 

Although Albania is now becoming a tourist destination, it continues to be the most closed of the former Communist countries in eastern Europe. The Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi tells the story of her childhood in the country in Free, which has won awards including the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. Fronteras de clase is a compilation of three political essays about inequality, migration and citizenship; while her most recent work, Indignity, once again weaves together family and political history, reconstructing the life of her grandfather through secret police archives, in a story about individual and collective dignity in contexts of repression and transition. She talks to Marianne Ponsford.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

Lea Ypi in conversation with Marianne Ponsford